Quote Originally Posted by Rick Evans
Just letting ya'll know that the collection merging support mentioned by manifoldronin is going to be backported into the 1.2.x branch.
I actually got a validation error,

Code:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-complex-type.3.2.2: Attribute 'merge' is not allowed to appear in element 'property'.
trying to use this feature with 2.0 M2. The spring-beans.xsd in M2 (also the head) doesn't seem to have 'merge' defined.